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Beware of preoccupying your heart with what it has not been created for.

Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya

Imaan is of two halves; half is patience (Sabr) and half is being thankful (Shukr).
IBN QAYYIM AL-JAWZIYYA

Being Half Thankful Two
As you can taste a pot full of food with a spoon likewise someone’s tounge can tell you about his heart.
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Heart Spoons Taste
If a man’s patience is stronger than his whims and desires, then he is like an angel, but if his whims and desires are stronger than his patience, then he is like a devil. If his desire for food, drink and sex is stronger than his patience, then he is no better than an animal.
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Angel Animal Sex
The perfection of Tawheed is found when there remains nothing in the heart except Allaah
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Found Heart Perfection
This wordly life is like a shadow. If you try to catch it, you will never be able to do so. If you turn your back towards it, it has no choice but to follow you.
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Choices Life Shadow
Ibn Taymiyyah lived poorly. He was imprisoned and threatened. But I have never seen anyone as happy as him.
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Except God Imprisoned Threatened
Sins have many side-effects. One of them is that they steal knowledge from you.
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Sides Sin Stealing
As long as one is following the right way, one should never be concerned about the reproaches of those who like to find faults.
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Fault Long Way
Wait until you come on the Day of Mutual Loss and Gain and you will discover the injustice of this contract.
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Contact Discover Injustice Wait
A real man is one who fears the death of his heart, not of his body.
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Heart Men Real
And to have spent the night sleeping and awoken regretful, is better than to have spent the night standing (in prayer) and awaken impressed with oneself!
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Impress Night Prayer Sleep
And if a person were given all of the world and what is in it, it would not fill his emptiness.
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Emptiness Given World
A tear that runs down a believer’s cheek is more beneficial than a thousand raindrops on the earth
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Islamic Religious Running
When Allah tests you it is never to destroy you. When He removes something in your possession it is only in order to empty your hands for an even greater gift.
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Hands Order Tests
Be to Allah as He wishes, and He will be to you more than you can wish for.
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God More Trust Wish
One of the most beneficial of remedies is persisting in du’a.
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Beneficial Persisting Remedy
Every drop of sweat and every breath we take in life, if not taken for the sake of Allah, will lead to regret and sorrow on the Day of Judgment
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God Lead Life Wisdom
Beware of preoccupying your heart with what it has not been created for.
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Created Heart Preoccupying
If a heart becomes attached to anything other than Allah, Allah makes him dependent on what he is attached to. And he will be betrayed by it.
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Attached Betrayed Depend Heart
O people who take pleasure in a life that will vanish, falling in love with a fading shadow is sheer stupidity
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Fall In Love Life Religious
Women are one half of society which gives birth to the other half so it is as if they are the entire society.
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Giving Society Women
Whoever desires to purify his heart, then let him prefer Allah to his desires
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God Religious Wisdom
Allah will never humiliate the one who takes his Lord as friend and patron.
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Humiliate Lord Patron
The sinner does not feel any remorse over his sins, that is because his heart is already dead
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Heart Islamic Religious
The hijrah to Allah includes abandoning what He hates and doing what He loves and accepts.
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Abandoning Accepting Hate
If you knew the true value of yourself, you will never allow yourself to be humiliated by committing sins.
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Humiliated Sin True Value
A true believer does not fear physical death, rather he fears the death of his heart
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Believer Death Heart